Penholder.



No. 820,907. I I PATENTED MAY 15, 1906. G. W. ROMAN.

PENHOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED MAE.15, 1006.

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OLAES WILIAM BOMAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO EAGLE PENCIL COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION.

PENHOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

:atentecl May 15, 1906.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLAES WILIAM BOMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Penholders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide in a cheap and efficient way the stick or handle of a penholder at its front end with a project ing ink-shield and finger-rest.

To this end the invention consists of a penholder constructed as I shall now proceed first to describe in connection with the accompanying drawings and then to point out more particularly in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the penholder. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal axial section of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of the three parts of which it is composed. Figs. 4. and 5 are sectional views of modified forms of shield.

A is the stick or handle of the penholder, made, preferably, ofwood. B is the metallic tip, so called. O is the shield. These are the tgllree parts ofwhich the penholder is comose The handle A is bored out axially at its front end for a portion of its length, as at a, the diameter of the bore a being such as to snugly accommodate the tip B, which is de signed to be inserted in it and to bethere held by glue or the-like.

The metallic tip B consists of a sheet-metal tube 6, having a flare or annular flange b at its front end and containing a split springmetal thimble 6 between which and the tube 5 the pen P is inserted.

The shield C may be of any suitable material such as cork, hard rubber, soft rubber, metal, &c. It is a narrow ring or annulus, preferably of bulbous exterior, as seen in Fig. 1. It is represented in Fig. 1 as being made of sheet metal of concave-convex cross-section. It may, however, have a protuberant rounded exterior only, with a straight cylindrical bore, as seen at C in Fig. 4. In any event it is intended to fit upon the cylindrical stem of tip B to be held between the flange b thereon and the front end of handle A. If desired, the annular shield may have a rounded flaring exterior, which at its outer end will extend beyond the seat against which the flanged end of the tip is designed to bring up, as seen at O Fig. 5.

To put the penholder together, the shield C is fitted on the tip B and the latter is inserted in the hole in the front end ofthe handle A and pushed back as far as it will *othat is to say, as far as permitted by the annular shield C, which will bring up against the front end of the handle and be held tightly between the same and the flanged front end I) of the tip. As before said, glue may be used to secure the tip and handle together, and the same instrumentality can be used, if desired, to hold the ring O tight on the tip.

The pen is simple and easily and cheaply made and is most effective for the purpose for which it is designed. The shield is, in fact, a bulbous comparatively narrow annular protuberance at the front end of the handle, which limits the extent to which the tip can be inserted in the handle, which serves as a linger rest and shield, and which also, when the penholder is laid down on the table, will keep the pen from contact therewith.

What I claim herein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A penholder, consisting of the handle A having bore a, metallic tip B adapted to be inserted and held in said bore, and provided with flanged front end b, and the annular bulbous shield C, fitted upon the shank of the tip, and confined between the flan ed end of said tip and the front end of the handle, as hereinbefore shown and described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

OLAES WILIAM BOMAN.

. Witnesses C. S. BRAISTED,

EDWARD DINKEL. 

